ilker ender
Senior Engineer, Technical Lead | IBM · Dublin, Ireland
Enterprise data platforms, Big Data infrastructure, and agentic AI systems. Currently leading evaluation and quality engineering for the IBM Db2 GeniusHub AI Assistant ecosystem (Db2 LUW, PureScale, DPF, and CDC Data Replication) powered by watsonx.ai and frontier LLMs, architecting custom Agentic AI Evaluation Frameworks (multi-turn trajectories, Safe SQL, tool verification), alongside deep expertise in Db2 Big SQL on Object Store and Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) on OpenShift.
A highly motivated technical lead and patent-holding engineer with extensive international experience spanning Big Data management software, cloud/on-prem data lakes, and cutting-edge agentic AI. I bring deep expertise across enterprise data architectures, distributed query engines, and hybrid cloud platforms, combined with leadership in building scalable AI evaluation harnesses, RAG pipelines, LLM benchmarking (Claude, Granite, Gemini), and robust quality engineering practices.
Big Data · Datalake · Lakehouse · Apache Iceberg · Db2 Big SQL · Db2 LUW · PureScale · DPF · Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) · Red Hat OpenShift · RHEL · Cloudera · Relational Databases · Agentic AI · Multi-Agent Systems · AI Evaluation Frameworks · LLM Benchmarking · Claude · IBM Granite · Gemini · watsonx.ai · Db2 GeniusHub · RAG · Vector & Contextual Search · Elasticsearch · Redis · Langfuse · Safe SQL · Technical Leadership · Software Quality Engineering
- Auto-scaling A Query Engine For Enterprise-level Big Data Workloads — JP 7657295
- Automatic Vertical Partitioning Of Fact Tables In A Distributed Query Engine — US 11841878
- Workload Generation For Optimal Stress Testing Of Big Data Management Systems — US 11741001
- Temporary Data Storage In Data Node Of Distributed File System — US 11416180
- Building an AI Powered Customer Support System with Db2 Vector Search — IBM Community
- DB2 best practices: DB2 instance recovery for IBM Smart Analytics System — IBM DeveloperWorks
I love travelling, for real: around the world trip (2013–2015)
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